I am using openSUSE 13.2 and my main DE is KDE4. The problem with my desktop PC is that when I select shutdown or restart - instead going straight to black the shutdown hangs for 5 - 6 seconds at the long prompt. I believe plymouthd should switch over to tty7 before opening the frame buffer. At least if it get's terminated, and/or if it simply exits the kernel should NOT switch back to tty1. Hence the console login prompt pause during shutdown.
See my report on our bugzilla.suse.com. I've provided the link below: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=850531
IMHO is would be sufficient if plymouth(d) whould allow that the current console (e.g. /dev/tty7) remains the active one even if plymouth(d) does terminate. That is that after termination/exit of plymouth(d) the kernel does not switch back to initial /dev/tty1.
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